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Entries Tagged as 'Team Explorer'

When starting Visual Studio it automatically tries to connect to your TFS, which can be very annoying if you work offline. You will probably see: TF30331: Team Explorer could not connect to the Team Foundation server … You can turn this auto-connect behavior off by setting the following files in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation "AutoLoadServer" = […]

A: You can disable it from the options dialog, however this does not remove it entirely (as described here). To turn it off completely you need to additonally set the following value in the registry: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\PowerTools TeamTrackerHidden = True (Thanks to Bill Essary from Microsoft for this tip) You can download a ready to use […]

Caution: Make sure to carefully read the Installation Guide before installing this software. What do I need it for? Access to TFSNote: A plain Visual Studio still needs Team Explorer to be able to talk to TFS. It installs: a tiny Visual Studio with only the “Team Explorer” in it if you don’t have Visual […]

The Team Foundation Server Power Tools (October 2008) introduced a new “Team Members” node, which offers the ability to quickly identify which subteams and actual team members belong to a TFS team project. Additionally you can see their online status. Support for Office Live Communicator and Windows Live Messenger is already built-in. There is an […]

If this is the case… Try… Make sure Visual Studio is closed (and devenv.exe not in memory anymore) Run: devenv /setup Check if it’s fixed already. If not, close down VS again. Run: devenv /resetuserdata The Team Explorer window should now look like expected again. (Thanks to Sven Hubert for the screenshot and workaround verification.)

You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is very comfortable, e.g. you can filter by user or time range. In TSWA […]